Tuesday, April 16, 2013

A Thing of (New York) Beauty

This is the first of three New York
Beauty variations that I get to quilt this season. This is the
smallest, at only 34 inches square. Really! The base of some of the
NY Beauty spikes is only ¼ inch wide!!! This customer creates her
own designs, right down to drafting her own paper foundations. It has
always been a joy to finish her quilts, as her piecing is incredibly
accurate.

This picture shows the top two-thirds of the
quilt. There are some teeny, tiny areas to quilt into, so I decided
to place larger, filled feather wreaths over the spikes. The
background fills are very dense.

I used Military Gold Glide thread. The
sparkle is already in the fabrics. Just enough sheen from the Glide
thread.

The New York Beauty block is so named
because it looks like you are gazing right down from over the top of
Lady Liberty's head, with the spikes of her crown splayed out in all
directions.

Here are my 3 ½ inch long stork
scissors for scale reference. Whew! This was intense to do. I'm
pretty glad this one is finished!

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take that step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen...there will be something solid for us to stand on, or we will be taught to fly." Anon.